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Poetry and music have been associated with each other from the very beginning. The Penguin Book of English Song draws together a great variety of English poetry (including Irish, Scots and Welsh writers) that has reached a wider audience through the magic of music. Richard Stokes’s rich anthology of verse stretches from the fourteenth century to the twentieth, collecting poems that have inspired musical settings by one hundred English poets, along with a treasure trove of illuminating notes and marginalia about their lives, work and, often, the... + Read More

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Series: The Other Side of HappinessEmbracing a More Fearless Approach to LivingPaperbackBrock Bastian9780241338391$29.95HEALTH & FITNESS May 29, 2018

’Pain is bad, right? In this fascinating book, Brock Bastian will convince you otherwise. Drawing on both vivid everyday examples and surprising laboratory findings, he shows how pain, suffering, and struggle give us pleasure, make us kinder, focus our thoughts, and give our life meaning. Bastian is a brilliant researcher and deep thinker and THE OTHER SIDE OF HAPPINESS is a delight to read’ Paul Bloom, author of AGAINST EMPATHY ’Brock Bastian skilfully shatters the zeitgeist of positive thinking, showing how struggle and suffering are vital... + Read More

’Exquisite…a classic tour de force’ The New York Times ’It struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into many pieces’ Early on a cold Sunday morning, forty-five-year-old Edgardo Limentani gets up to join a shooting party in the countryside surrounding the town of Ferrara. As the day passes, he contemplates his past, his disappointments and how he has got here. Like the birds he shoots, he realizes, he is trapped, broken, waiting alone for the final coup de grâc... + Read More

’Without doubt the most arresting and original new young poet, on the page and in performance’ - Carol Ann Duffy A Sunday Times Book of the Year and New Zealand’s best-selling collection, from the unstoppable force behind such poems as ’Monica’ (the one from Friends) and ’Keats is Dead so F**k Me from Behind’ this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl……with many beneficial thoughts and feelings…… with themes as varied as snow and tears, the poems in this collection shine with the fantastic cream of who she is……………... + Read More

What’s better than sending flowers to a loved one? Sending a botanical bouquet of biscuits instead, or treating someone special to biscuits in bed with the Biscuiteers’ recipe for the ultimate fry-up. Give unicorns to your friends; wellies to Dad; love birds to your loved-one; and an apple to the teacher. This book is just bursting with perfect iced gifts for everyone. Brimming with famous Biscuiteers designs, along with exclusive creations you won’t have seen before, this beautiful book shows how easy it is to bake, ice and assemble your own... + Read More

The Number 1 Bestseller - now fully updated! The definitive account of the rise of the Kinahan gang and the deadly feud that has shocked the nation. ’It’s incisive, it’s intriguing, it’s fascinating’ - Ryan Tubridy, RTÉ ’Fascinating!’ Keith Ward, FM104 He is one of Ireland’s most successful CEOs, running a global multinational with operations on every continent and a turnover in the billions. However, Christy Kinahan will never be celebrated in the financial press. For his business - drugs, guns, money-laundering, murder - also make... + Read More

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Series: Brexit and IrelandThe Dangers, the Opportunities, and the Inside Story of the Irish ResponsePaperbackTony Connelly9780241982426$21.99BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jun 26, 2018

Brexit represents the single greatest economic and foreign-policy challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War. There is hardly any area of Irish life that won’t be affected. More than any other journalist, RTE’s long-time Brussels correspondent Tony Connelly has been helping the public make sense of the implications of Brexit for Ireland. Now, he tells the dramatic untold story of the Irish response to this political and economic earthquake and lays out the agenda for the uncertain years ahead. Drawing on unprecedented access to ins... + Read More

’Burning ice, biting flame; that is how life began’ The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic and compelling of the world’s great stories. The Penguin Book of the Norse Myths compellingly retells these stories for the modern reader, taking us from the creation of the world through the building of Asgard’s Wall to the final end in Ragnarok. You’ll discover how Thor got his hammer and how Odin lost his eye, the terrible price of binding the wolf Fenrir and why Loki the trickster can never be trus... + Read More

It’s an exciting day for Timothy Flowers. It’s the third of November, and it’s Friday, and it’s his twenty-first birthday. When Timothy walks to his usual street corner to see his favourite special bus, he meets Charlie. Charlie is a builder who is desperate for Timothy’s help because Timothy is very tall, six feet six inches. Timothy has never had a job before - or no work that he’s kept for more than a day. But when Timothy and Charlie have to collect money from a local thug, things don’t exactly go according to plan… Over the course of on... + Read More

This is Gemma Dowler’s powerful account, as seen on The One Show and This Morning… ’My name is Gemma Dowler. On 21 March 2002, a serial killer named Levi Bellfield stole my sister and sent our family to Hell…’ Everyone thinks they know the story of Milly Dowler. Haunting headlines about the missing schoolgirl splashed across front pages. The family’s worst fears realised when her body was found months later. The years of waiting for the truth, only to learn that the killer, known to the police, lived just yards from where Milly had vanishe... + Read More

This is Gemma Dowler’s powerful account, as seen on The One Show and This Morning… ’My name is Gemma Dowler. On 21 March 2002, a serial killer named Levi Bellfield stole my sister and sent our family to Hell…’ Everyone thinks they know the story of Milly Dowler. Haunting headlines about the missing schoolgirl splashed across front pages. The family’s worst fears realised when her body was found months later. The years of waiting for the truth, only to learn that the killer, known to the police, lived just yards from where Milly had vanishe... + Read More

Bold, moving, entertaining and controversial, this is the great novel of 1960s Lagos life - with one of the most unforgettable heroines in literature. Jagua Nana, no longer young but still irresistible, lives a life of hedonism in Lagos: men, parties, fights, wild nights in the Tropicana with her handsome young boyfriend Freddie. Rushing from one experience to the next in search of something she can’t quite grasp, Jagua finds herself embroiled in shady politics, caught up in village feuds and a source of drama wherever she goes. In this viv... + Read More

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Series: Follow This ThreadA Maze Book to Get Lost InHardcoverHenry Eliot9781846149313$35.99ARCHITECTURE Jun 26, 2018

’Delightful, ingenious and beautifully designed’ Philip Pullman ’Uniquely magical, each page offers new delights. Many books are described as ’journeys’ but Follow This Thread really is one’ Alan Connor ’Beautifully immaculate degree zero prose…a coherent and exhilarating experience’ Greg Bright, the ’Maze King’ Take an immersive journey into the labyrinthine world of mazes Labyrinths are as old as humanity, the proving grounds of heroes, the paths of pilgrims, symbols of spiritual rebirth and pleasure gardens for pure entertainment.... + Read More

Longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019 Arnold Thomas Fanning had his first experience of depression during adolescence, following the death of his mother. Some ten years later, an up-and-coming playwright, he was overcome by mania and delusions. Thus began a terrible period in which he was often suicidal, increasingly disconnected from family and friends, sometimes in trouble with the law, and homeless in London. Drawing on his own memories, the recollections of people who knew him when he was at his worst, and medical and police records,... + Read More

The No 1 bestsellers’ new book - packed with quick and easy veggie options, clever meat-free versions of popular favourites and inspiring advice on how to be healthier! ’These lovely boys always create incredibly tasty food’ Jamie Oliver Though they have written two No 1 bestselling vegetarian cookbooks, David and Stephen Flynn, the twins behind the Happy Pear cafés and food business, know it can be challenging to juggle everything and still feel inspired! And being busy dads themselves they also know the pressure of getting delicious healthy... + Read More

By the author of the Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller The Etymologicon Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there’s drink there’s drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day’s work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle. A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind’s love affair with booze from our primat... + Read More

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Series: The British in IndiaThree Centuries of Ambition and ExperienceHardcoverDavid Gilmour9780241004524$53.95HISTORY Nov 27, 2018

A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean or later via the Suez Canal? And when they got to India, what did they do and how did they live? This book explores the lives of the many different sorts of Briton who went to India: viceroys and offcials, soldiers a... + Read More

A panoramic history of Judaism from its origins to the present Judaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions. Despite the extraordinarily diverse forms it has taken, the Jewish people have believed themselves bound to God by the same covenant for more than three thousand years. This book explains how Judaism came to be and how it has developed from one age to the next, as well as the ways in which its varieties have related to each other. A History of Judaism ranges from Judaism’s inception amidst polytheistic societ... + Read More

’Their best book yet.’ Independent The River Café serves the best of Italian food. This is THE cookbook. The best of the best of their classic Italian recipes… Enjoy a simple creamy risotto con latte, accompanied by a cool glass of prosecco. Toss spaghetti alla carbonara with juicy pancetta and fresh parsley. Or serve up a tray-baked chicken, drizzled in squeezed lemon, stuffed with tomatoes and olives. For afters, a treat from northern Italy, baked blackberry and apple strudel. ’Their favourite classic Italian recipes in one plac... + Read More

’A passionate, hilarious, joyful love letter to Russian literature’ Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegraph ’A delightful primer and companion to all the authors you are ashamed to admit you haven’t read’ The Times Viv Groskop has discovered the meaning of life in Russian literature. As she knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened in life has already happened in these novels: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina) to being in love with someone who doesn’t love you back enough (A Month in the Countr... + Read More

The No 1 Bestseller! An encouraging, practical, affordable and sustainable plan that will help you achieve lasting changes in your well-being Would you like to be trimmer, fitter and healthier, but do not know where to start? After all, there is so much conflicting advice. Or do you go on diets and fitness drives all the time, but can’t stick with anything? Karl Henry has been working with people like you for nearly twenty years. He has seen it all, heard it all and knows the secret of making lasting change. The secret is that there is ... + Read More

The ancient Greeks revered Hesiod, believing he had beaten Homer in a singing contest and that after his dead body was thrown to sea, it was brought back by dolphins. His Works and Days is one of the most important early works of Greek poetry. Ostensibly written by the poet to chide his lazy brother, it recounts the story of Pandora’s box and humanity’s decline since the Golden Age, and can be read as a celebration of rural life and a hymn to work.

** THE PERFECT STOCKING FILLER FOR THE HISTORY LOVER IN YOUR LIFE ** Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series. Learn about the fall of Europe in the Second World War in one of the most successful military strategies of modern warfare in this accessible, insightful and authoritative account. Historian, author and broadcaster James Holland draws on the latest research and interviews with participants to bring colour, detail and a fresh perspective to the story. You’ll find out how Hitler quickly turned Germany into a war machine: the re... + Read More

A spellbinding story of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the brutal world of tenth-century England.I have broken my vows. I have murdered innocents. I have trod down the soil over their dead face with my bare heels, and only the moon as witness. I have loved a woman and she ruined me. I have loved a king and yet I ruined him.The year is 937. England is a nation divided, ruled by minor kings and Viking lords. Each vies for land and power. The Wessex king Æthelstan, grandson of Alfred the Great, is readying himself to throw a spe... + Read More

Conn Iggulden, the bestselling author of the Emperor, Conqueror and The Wars of the Roses series’ returns to the Ancient World with a ferociously bloody epic… In the Ancient World, one army was feared above all others. 401 BC. The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India. As many as fifty million people are his subjects. His rule is absolute. Though the sons of Sparta are eager to play the game of thrones… Yet battles can be won - or lost - with a single blow. Princes fall. And when the dust of... + Read More

In the Ancient World, one army was feared above all others. This is their story. When Cyrus, brother to the Great King of Persia, attempts to overthrow his reckless sibling, he employs a Greek mercenary army of 10,000 soldiers. When this army becomes stranded as a result of the unexpected death of Cyrus, and then witnesses the treacherous murder of its entire officer corps, despair over takes them.One man, Xenophon, rallies the Greeks. As he attempts to lead them to freedom across 1,500 miles of hostile territory seething with adversaries, 10,0... + Read More

The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller The perfect new gift from the bestselling author of Britain’s 1000 Best Churches It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting, greeting and parting. It is an institution with its own rituals and priests, and a long-neglected aspect of Britain’s architecture. And yet so little do we look at the railway station. Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain, from Waterloo to Wemyss Bay, Betws-y-Coed to Bev... + Read More

Marian Keyes’ ALL-NEW novel… ’Classic Marian Keyes: a blizzard of wit and wisecracks. Mercilessly funny’ The Times ———————————— Amy’s husband Hugh has run away to ’find himself’. But will he ever come back? ’Myself and Hugh…We’re taking a break.’ ’A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?’ If only. Amy’s husband Hugh says he isn’t leaving her. He still loves her, he’s just taking a break - from their marriage, their children and, most of all, from their life together. Six months to lose himself in South East Asia. And ... + Read More

Lucy Sullivan’s been told she is getting married…but to who? She doesn’t even have a boyfriend yet… ’I was still at that stage in my life when I thought that weekdays were for recovering from the weekend’ Lucy Sullivan is twenty-six and living it up (and occasionally down) in London. Hers is a life of quiet, undisciplined desperation. But when she and three friends visit a psychic for a bit of fun and the woman’s predictions start coming true, Lucy is horrified. For the fortune teller insisted she’d soon be married - within the year, in f... + Read More

Watermelon, Marian Keyes’s very first novel, tells the extremely funny and wonderfully touching tale of a woman who thought she had it all - until the day she discovers that it’s all gone… ’ Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup… ’ On the day she gives birth to her first child, Claire Walsh’s husband James tells her he’s been having an affair and now’s the right time to leave her. Right for who exactly? Exhausted, tearful and tiny bit furious, Claire can’t think what to do. So she follows the instincts of all sel... + Read More

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Series: Connected WorldFrom Automated Work to Virtual Wars: The Future, By Those Who Are Shaping ItPaperbackPhilip Larrey9780241308424$31.99SCIENCE Jun 26, 2018

The world as we know it is changing. Driverless cars, drone deliveries and autonomous weapon systems are no longer the stuff of science fiction. But what’s next for technology and business, and how will it impact our society? In Connected World, Philip Larrey of the Pontifical Lateran University explores the consequences of the new digital age in conversation with leaders including Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, and Maurice Lévy, CEO of Publicis Groupe. Ranging from the death of pri... + Read More

’Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and you won’t put it down’ Daniel Kahneman In this eye-opening exploration of the human weaknesses for power, Daniel Levin takes us on a hilarious journey through the absurd world of our global elites, drawing unforgettable sketches of some of the puppets who stand guard, and the jugglers and conjurers employed within. Most spectacular of all, however, are the astonishing contortions performed by those closest to the top in order to maintain the illusion of integrity, d... + Read More

Eva Dunbar wakes in a large metal box. She has no idea who has taken her. She has no way out. She isn’t the first young woman to disappear. And with no leads Detective Ian Bradshaw has precious little time. When at last a body is found, the police hope the tragic discovery might at least provide a clue that will help them finally find the kidnapper. But then they identify the body - and realise the case is more twisted than they ever imagined… __________________ ’THIS STORY WILL CAUSE NIGHTMARES, IT IS THAT GOOD’ DAILY MAI... + Read More

Is your business looking out? The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our ’digital breadcrumbs’ - from job postings, to online news, social media, online ad spend, patent applications and more. As a result, we’re at the cusp of a major shift in the way businesses are managed and governed - moving from a focus solely on lagging, internal data, toward analyses that also encompass industry-wide, ... + Read More

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2018** ’A surprisingly touching account of hidden lives forced out of the shadows’ Sunday Times One day in 1940 Rene Hargreaves walks out on her family and the city to take a position as a Land Girl at the remote Starlight farm. There she will live with and help lonely farmer Elsie Boston. At first Elsie and Rene are unsure of one another - strangers from different worlds. But over time they each come to depend on the other. They become inseparable. Until the day a visitor from Rene’s past arrives ... + Read More

Cleanliness is next to enlightenment. In this Japanese bestseller a Buddhist monk explains the traditional meditative techniques that will help cleanse not only your house - but your soul. Live clean. Feel calm. Be happy. We remove dust to sweep away our worldly cares. We live simply and take time to contemplate the self, mindfully living each moment. It’s not just monks that need to live this way. Everyone in today’s busy world needs it. In Japan, cleanliness is next to enlightenment. This bestselling guide by a Zen Buddhist monk draws ... + Read More

’An onslaught of positivity from start to finish…Plenty [of people] will find something in it to help them along’ Irish Times As an All-Ireland winning footballer and a successful motivational coach and businessman, Enda McNulty has an intimate knowledge of what it takes to achieve real success. Enda has worked with international high achievers such as rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll, the Leinster and Irish rugby teams, Olympian David Gillick, Riverdance principal dancer, Padraic Moyles, and top management teams in companies like Digicel, Diage... + Read More

Put yourself to the test with this collection of challenges from throughout history, featuring some of the greatest ever puzzle masters… ————————————— A Sumerian Riddle (circa 18th Century) There is a house. The blind enter it and then come out seeing. What is that house? ————————————— A Charade I have wings, yet never fly - I have sails, yet never go - I cant keep still, if I try, Yet forever stand just so. ————————————— From the riddles of the ancients to puzzles that perplex the greatest minds of today, The Penguin Book of Puzz... + Read More

’A hugely entertaining Victorian mystery’ New York Times ’I enjoyed this - properly creepy and Gothic’ Ian Rankin _______________ A CASE FOR FREY & McGRAY The Scottish Highlands, 1889. When a young heir receives a sinister death threat, Inspectors Frey and ’Nine-Nails’ McGray answer a desperate plea to offer him protection. The detectives travel north to the remote and misty Loch Maree, site of an ancient burial ground. They must stay with the mysterious Koloman family - any one of whom might be a suspect. But Frey and McGra... + Read More

’Our nation’s great satirist…the most sustained feat of comic writing in Irish literature’ Irish Times It’s the end of the world as Ross knows it…this time, there’s no way of escaping another monumental fock-up! Sorcha had thrown me out of the family home - this time apparently for good. And yet that was the least of my worries… My old dear was in prison, accused of murdering her second husband. My sons were showing an unhealthy interest in - someone call social services - soccer! And my daughter wanted everyone to call her Eddie. But don’t ... + Read More

George Orwell’s moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change. The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism and an English revolution. His fullest political statement, it has been described as ’one of the most moving and incisive portraits of the English character’ and is as relevant now as it ever has been.

From the bestselling author and illustrator of Start Where You Are comes an inspiring look at making peace with fear - to become our truest selves. A mix of personal reflections, inspirational quotes, questions for reflection, and breathtaking watercolour visuals, My Friend Fear asserts that having big fear is an opportunity to make big changes, to discover the remarkable potential inside ourselves. Inspiring, relatable and vibrant, this is the perfect gift for anyone who wants to overcome inner obstacles to live a fuller and happier life.

’A gripping new novel’ HELLO! Magazine _______________ London, 1960 The lives of teenage twins Maisy and Duncan change for ever the night their sick mother is taken to an asylum. Sent to live in the New Forest with their cold-hearted grandmother, Mrs Mitcham, they feel unloved and abandoned. And when one day Duncan doesn’t come home from exploring in the forest, no one - least of all his grandmother - appears to care about his disappearance. The police, who’ve found the bodies of other missing boys, offer little hope of finding Duncan aliv... + Read More

’PROOF THAT THE SPY GENRE IS FLOURISHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY’ Guardian ’I know for certain that there is a mole somewhere within the intelligence services…His codename is Nobody…’ Solomon Vine is a spy on a fast track to the top. But when a prisoner is shot in unexplained circumstances on his watch, only suspension and exile beckon. Three months later, MI6’s Head of Station in Istanbul is violently abducted from his home. With the Service in lockdown, uncertain of who can be trusted, thoughts turn to the missing man’s oldest friend: Sol... + Read More

Lisa Riley lets us in on the secrets behind her incredible 12-stone weight loss. FEEL and LOOK GREAT the simple way with Lisa. AS SEEN ON THIS MORNING, In Lisa’s Honesty segment. ’I loved Lisa’s ’tough love’…that none of the recipes took hours to prepare and cook. People have commented that my face looks thinner and my skin looks GOOD’ - Clare After years wearing size-30 clothes and convincing herself she was ’fat but happy’, Lisa Riley finally took control of her body and shed a remarkable 12 stone. Significantly healthier, infinitely ha... + Read More